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Nurses on PCG boards
5 February, London; 12 February, York; 19 February, Liverpool; 26 February, Cambridge; 5 March, Derby
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Medicine: not the best laughter
Seven ages of nursing By Mark Radcliffe NT Books 122 pages £6.50
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Managers 'will bear the brunt of GP overspend'
Managers could bear the brunt of unpopular measures to deal with GP overspends in the reformed NHS, the Office of Health Economics has predicted.
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Fixer's trust has bad debts
A top NHS manager drafted in to troubleshoot at a London trust facing a £6m deficit has admitted his own trust has run up a £3m bad debts loss.
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Soviet-style back-stabbing and political goulash - welcome to PCGs
In April, primary care groups - still talking shops without secretariats - will 'go live', setting pro and anti-fundholders together, in an attempt at enforcing unifying policies among GPs of diverse opinion. Similarly, nurses, health visitors, social workers and political appointees will be plunged into the melting pot, the inevitable ...
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High Court backs HA on 'downgrade'
Campaigners who took Worcestershire health authority to court, claiming a consultation exercise on plans to downgrade Kidderminster General Hospital was 'dishonest', have been defeated.
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'Even the best performers have much to do, but some have an awful lot more to do than others'
Taking the slow road: Scotland's year 2000 problem
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Former nurse Ann Keen
Former nurse Ann Keen has been appointed parliamentary private secretary to health secretary Frank Dobson. The Brentford and Isleworth MP was also general secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association until her election in 1997. She succeeds Hugh Bayley, now a social security minister.
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All hands on deck
The former admiral seconded to Ashworth Hospital in the wake of the damning Fallon report has his work cut out. Laura Donnelly looks at the options
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Upheaval, mayhem, poor morale - and all for what? Merger mania is causing seismic shifts that may not fulfil expectations
On 1 April the NHS structure throughout the UK will look radically different to how it did just 23 months earlier when Labour came to power. A decade ago, the service protested shrilly against the pace of change instigated by the Thatcher reforms; the internal market took three years to ...
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Community and mental health trust opts to outsource all its IT
HBOC has won a £3.6m, seven-year contract to manage all IT at Chichester Priority Care Services trust. The deal makes Chichester the first community and mental health trust to outsource its entire IT operation.
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Bristol inquiry publishes agenda
The inquiry into the Bristol child heart surgery tragedy, due to begin in March, has published a list of the main issues it will examine in the first phase of hearings.
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'Laid-back' attitude to violence against nurses
Nurses are more at risk from violence at work than any other profession, according to a new report from the Trades Union Congress which says violence is 'endemic' in hospitals.
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Same again but with a difference The only real option open to Labour is to fund the nurses' pay award
Ministers are currently having that hardest of lessons about the NHS rammed down their throats - namely, that no matter how much money you allocate to it, sooner or later (usually sooner) it will raise a cacophonous clamour for even more.
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Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city.
Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city. He was previously finance director for Leicestershire health authority and is a past chair of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Mr Binns' previous post has been filled by Kevin Orford, formerly finance director for Nottingham City ...
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Time-wasters
About half the calls made to Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service over the holiday period were a 'waste of time', claims trust spokesman Phil Morris.
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Supra troupers
A study into the development of one city's primary care groups found backing for a supra-PCG, which would monitor standards and provide management support. Judith Smith and colleagues explain
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Ready sorted
news focus; Health authority and trust chief executives in the capital have already experienced the forthright management style of Nigel Crisp, the man running the new London region.
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...